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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-01-13
AN ABUSED MAN.

1he Republicans Now Admit That secre-
tary Bayard Is No Hot-Headed Blum
derer. But n Wise Statesman.
While the Blaine organs, inspired by
the arch-disturber himself, were abus-
ing Secretary Bayard for what they
termed his cowardly policy in relation
to the seizures of American fishing YES
sells by the Canadian authorities, he
was pushing forward with skill, judg-
ment and vigor the American side of
the question, and manifesting spirit
and determination worthy of the great
country he represents. Blaine, Frye
and other demagogues accused him of
trucking to England and sacrificing
the rights of our fishermen by not pro-
voking rupture with the British Gov
ernment. Mr.. Bayard remained silent
under this fire, quietly attending to his
duty in far more practical and vigor-
Gus manner than his detractors recon-
mended.
When the proper time came he laid
the matter before Congress and COW
cred his detractors with shame and con-
fusion. There was an instantaneous
reaction in his favor. even on the part
of those who most violently abused
him, and it is now universally acknowl-
edged that the course of the State De-
partment all through this fishery dis
pute has been eminently wise and pat
riotic. Even the New York Tribune,
which most tiercely assailed Mr.. Bay
ard, is forced to acknowledge: 1.-The
State Department has argued various
phases of the fisheries question with
lucidity and logical acumen during the
year. 1t has had strong case, and
with the powerful aid of Mr.. Phelps has
forcibly presented it" This is a change
of heart from an unexpected quarter
and shows that truth must prevail even
where falsehood is most cultivated.
But the Tribune might spare its ad-
vice to the Administration in urging
commercial retaliation against Cana
dian vessels in American ports. It
criticises the Administration for pre-
ferring diplomatic method to aggres-
sive action. Fortunately for the
country, the Administration does not
propose to use such an extreme policy,
unless as a last resort, and selects the
safer and more satisfactory method OF
conciliatory argument. The State De.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-01-13
Where He Was Great.

Miss Duffy-I hear that You are en-
gagged to young Solder, the Plumber.
Miss Puffy-It is fact, Jane.
1T always struck me that he was a
cold, cailous creature"
''Well, Jane. confess that he does
not do very much cooling, but on billing
he can not be surpassed. Philadelphia
Coll.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-01-13
WIT AND WISDOM.

1T isn't our needs, generally, that
are SO expensive. It's our cravings
"A Charleston paper speaks Of an
opal .'as large as small hens egg"
We should think it would be difficult to
set.-Boston Commercial Bulletin.
THAT distinguished and excellent
Judge, Lord Mansfield, once observeds
"True popularity is not the popularity
which is followed after, hut the popu-
larity which follows after"
(which is correct" asked Mrs.
Coldtea, ".the biscuit are light or the
biscuits are lightp''' - Neither" re-
piled the first floor front, "'the biscuit
are heavy is correct. THE Rambler.
Now is the time to look around for
last years snow-shovel. If you have
any trouble in finding it look in the
parlor over the piano. The chances
are that your oldest daughter decorated
it and hung it up last spring.-Smner-
ville Journal.
Mrs. de Hobson (complacently)-
Yes, Mr.. Featherly. that is portrait Of
myself when little girl. Itwas painted
by celebrated artist. Mr.. Featherly
(anxious to say the right thing)-Er--
one of the old mastersp-N. p. Sun.
Extremely Thin Party: just re-
turned from Florida, old mani Great
country to brace man up! Gained
twenty-five pounds in three lveeksl
Stout Party: How'd you get thereby
mailp-PucE.
"A frightened earl:
There was once an English earA
Who loved an American geari;
When he found her "estate"
Was house and back-gate,
1t frightened his hair out OF ceaxi.
Boston Btldget.
-"Yes, the team is quite good one,
Mr.. Eorsely," he said as he returned
the liveryman' brag team, ''but it has
two drawbacks" 'tOh, indeed; and
may I inquire what they arep', "The
lines. Dallas Nesos.
do send that torgan-grinder away.
His music is horrible!" II don't think
so. ] consider it fine music" s.Finert
Decidedly SO. How could it be other
wise, when it's ground so muchp''-
Chicago Ledger.
"A rather elderly maiden nad mar.
ried n gentleman named Young. AL
low me to congratulate you on the
renewal of your YOUTH" said the jester
after the ceremony. '.Sir." was the
frigid and dignified response. II fail TO
comprehend your meaning" .'Why."
said the jester, "don't your know your
marriage has made you Young again"
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Some people have such q surplus
of wisdom that they are constantly
overlooking in streams Of counsel to
others. 1t makes no difference
whether their counsel is asked or not,
or whether it is becoming in them to
give or not, they thrust it forward.
Their poor victims feel like saying. in
the language of Esau TO Jacob: ''lhavs
enough. my brother; keep that thou
hast unto thyself. "-C Chscdgo StdsdseG.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-01-13
Not Very Polite.

Mrs. Hendricks (the landlady)-Can
1 send you some more soup. Mr.. Dunn
leyP
Mr.. Dumley-No. thanks
Mrs. Hendricks (-ngagingly)-Don't
refuse, Mr.. Dumley, because it isn't
considered good forn to be helped twice
to soup.
Mr.. Dumlcy-Oh, etiquette has moth
ing to do with it, madam; it's the soup.
N. Y. Sun.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-01-13
the EAST,

The probate court at Farmi ngton, Me-,
has sustained the Belcher will, which be-
queaths a large sum to Bates College and
makes President Cheney the xecutor.
AT Concord, N. H., on the 9Th two ten
year-old boys named James B rocks and
John Knox, ran into wagon and the boys
were SO seriously injured that they are not
expected to live.
Seventy-fve glass manufacturers, repre-
senting all sections Of the country, met in
Pittsburgh on the 5th and formed the Amer
ican association of flint and lime glass man
ufacturers. There was no discussion upon
prices or wages.
The convention Of Monongahela, Ypugh-
iogheny and Kanawha river coal miners
in session at Pittsburgh on the 5th per-
fected the organization of their new sub
district of the Knights Of Labor. The new
district will have a membership Of nearly
1900, and in the future, in making any de-
mands, the miners Of the three rivers, as
well as those Of the coke region, will work
in unison.
Mrs. Sarah A. Kelly, better known as the
"Bard Of Shanty HILL" at Scranton, Pa,
who has gained national fame through her
eccentricities, was admitted to the Lacka-
wanna hospital on the 9th. She is said to
be suffering from complication Of diseases,
AMI can not recover.
Governor Bodwell, of Maine, was inaugur-
ated on the 9th. In his address he recon.
meud.s as simple remedy for the fishery
troubles the levying of such increased du-
ties on what fish Canada sends to the
United States as would partially, il moi
wholly, exclude Canadian fishermen from
our market.
Counsel on both sides in the threatened
contest over the will Of the late Samuel j
Tilden assert their complete ignorance OF
any attempt or intention to settle the dis
pute by compromise.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-01-13

Some men are born mean and some
achieve meanness. No one has mean
ness thrust upon them Teras Sittings.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-01-13
WASHINGTON.

The Government has purchased the Sioux
Indians reserve in Montana Territory for
N,650,000. The tract comprises 1900, 900
acres.
The President on the 4th committed to
i've years' imprisonmeutthe death sentence
of John W. Parrott, Of Arkansas, convicted
OF murder and sentenced-to be hanged Jan
uary IA
The President on the 5th sent to the Sem
ate the nomination Of Rhydon n. Call to be
Attorney for the Northern district of
Florida, and James Spencer, Of Whitehall,
N. T., to be Associate Justice Of the Su-
preme Court Of Dakota.
William Thomson, United States Consul
at Southampton, died on the 5th from
bronchitis.
Thomas C. Manning, of Louisiana, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
to Mexico; Hugh A. Densmore, of Arkan-
sas, Minister Resident and Consul General
to Cerea; Robert E. Culbreth, Of California,
Consul at Apia; and Thomas o. Bashaw, of
Missouri, Attorney for the Eastern district
of Missouri, were among the nominations
semitic the Senate on the 9th by the Presi-
dent.
Superintendent Jameson, Of the railway
mail service, is informed that fourteen let
ter pouches and truck load of papers were
destroyed in the recent railroad accident at
Thin, o.; also that 300 letters and eighty
sacks Of paper mail met similar fate in
the Springfield, Mass, railroad disaster.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has ap-
pointed Herbert F. Beecher to be special
agent of the Treasury. He is q son of Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher. and was formerly
Collector Of Customs at Port Townsend,
W.T..
Frank B. Mcdonald, son of ex-senator
Mcdonald, died at Washington on the 9th
OF heart disease. He had been for some
years clerk in the Treasury Department.
The remains were taken to Indiana for
burial.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-08-13
LOUISVILLE, KY.

Our attention has been called to sew
eral inaccuracies in Rev. Thomas H.
Johnson's article on early Universalism
in Cincinnati, published two weeks ago,
not at all rem arkable in dealing with
the events of half century ago, when
the age Of the writer is remembered.
One of these inaccuracies, as it in
wolves beloved memory, we may
notice. 1t was stated that after the
death of Rev. E. M. Pingree there was
no Univers alist church in Louisville,
KY. This is an error. Mr.. Pingree
died Jan. s, 1849. Rev, G.. Fl. Emer-
son was then supplying the pulpit.
How long he continued in that rela-
ton we have no means of ascertain
ing at present. Rev. d. B. Turner
was the pastor. some time in the year
1850; Rev. l. d. Williamson, DID,, from
October, 1851, to October, 1853, and Rev.
Almon Gage followed DIR. Williamson.
If we are not mistaken Mr.. Gage was
the last settled pastor, but, doubtless,
the pulpit was supplied by others SUBJ
sequently, and before the fatal "sell
outn to the Unitarians was accomplish
ed, by which the Universalists gained
for themselves and lost their
own UNCONVENTIONAL standing in the
citV
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-08-13
HADDOOK's "HELL NOT ETERNAL

The "Open Letter. to Rev. DIR. Oneil,
of Clarinda, Iowa, which we print this
week, from Rev. B. F. Shook, of that
city, is direct and incisive. DR.. Oneil
had the temerity to challenge the state
ment that Rev. GEORGE G. HADDoCK
entertained Universalist opinions. Mr..
Shook addressed him in this public
manner, giving the proofs, taken from
the recent biography of the Iowa temp
erance martyr, which very amply and
forcibly sustains the original state
ment, proving that Paddock, by his
own showing, was believer in Uni
versalism. These extracts from the
biography have been printed in THE
UNIvERsALIsT, and have attracted
a large attention. Their reproduction
now, in the open letter to DR.. Oneil,
will keep the matter fresh in the minds
of our readers, while other features of
this remarkable case come up for re-
view.
The Haddock case, is, indeed, very
interesting and fruitful one. Here is a
Methodist minister, never suspected of
any substantial deviation from the faith
of his church, during the later years of
an active and stirring ministry, pri-
yately investigating the subject of eter-
nal destiny, and putting his conclusions
in the form of a manuscript of over
three hundred pages, with the title,
Hell not Eternaln So far as known,
he gave no hint of any change in his
faith. He never figured as one who
was specially interested in the discus
sions on this subject in recent years.
He kept his own counsel, and pursued
his studies. Suddenly removed by the
assassin, for his strenuous advocacy of
the enforcement of the Iowa prohibit
ton law, his name becomes widely
known. His history as temperance
man, and the first martyr Of the cause,
is widely published. His biography was
prepared by his son, Frank G. Haddock,
and in that volume the revelation is
first made, that this Methodist pastor,
in the later years of his life had changed
his theological opinions, and was no
longer a believer in endless misery.
More than that, ne had prepared a
manuscript in which he discussed the
subject of eternal destiny, and in a
clear, vigorous, and unequivocal man.
ner, announced Universalist cOnclu-
sions as to the destiny of mankind.
Some of the paragraphs from this man.
uscript, already laid before our readers,
are remarkable for the trenchant and
vigorous manner in which the doctrine
of endless punishment is assailed. The
argument of the volume, his son in
forms us, was ''long and exhaustive both
in Scripture and in reason. AS he
neared the end he asked, What can be
more natural or rational than the belief
that gospel agencies were introduced
simultaneously on earth and in hades,
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-08-13

When he repents, he forgives him, but
always in accordance with the one prin-
ciple of love. Justice is the form
Divine love takes toward the sinful.
Mercy is the form it takes toward the
penitent. All the change possible to
God, therefore, is in the form of his
activity. In his treatment of us, he
changes, but in the principle of that
treatment he never changes.
All the change that Christ can pro-
duce in God, therefore, is in the form
of his activity. By changing the con-
dition of man, he changes the form of
Gods treatment of man. When he
leads the sinner to repentance, he is the
occasional cause of Gods coming to
him in the form of mercy. Primarily
Christ does not act upon God at ALL
Any idea that Christ by anything he
did or suffered, rendered God loving
toward man, or willing to forgive him
is frank heresy." 1t lies at the root
of all the great errors concerning the
atonement. His primary work is upon
man. 1t is to lead man to repentance
and all he does upon God is to change
the form Of his activity by leading man
to repentance. Here then is the truth,
it seems to me, after which DIR. Sweet
ser is feeling. 1t is that Christ changes
the form of the Divine activity toward
man. By changing the condition of
man, he changes the method Of Gods
treatment of man.
To this change of method of treat
ment are to be referred all expressions
the Bible that imply change in
God. They set forth merely change
in the form Of the Divine activity, never
change in the principle of that activ-
ity. If you call God unpropitious to-
ward the sinner, when he is Furnishing
him, then it will do to call him propit-
ious toward him, when, on repentance,
he forgives him. So with all such ex-
pressions.' In popular language, it will
do to use them concerning God, but it
will not do to use them in theological
science. If you use them to set forth
just what God is, and how he feels,
they are misleading. God never changes
the principle of his activity, but only
its form; hence 70 this change of form
must all Scripture expressions be re-
ferred that seem to imply change in
God. Only in this sense can Christ
work change in God, and in this sense
he does work change in him.
S. CRANE.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-08-13
VACATION PERSONALS.

Rev. Richmond Fisk, d. D., in London,
with his daughter.
Rev. c. S. Nickerson, some place in
Michigan, with his wife.
Rev. Charles Conklin, Fox Lake, in his
cottage, with his family.
Prof. Kobe, of Buchtel College, has
nowgone to Chautauqua Lake.
Rev. S. g. Davis, of Quincy, Mass, is
summering at Olcott, N. Y.
Rev. Mrs. Barnes, at Trinidad, COL, do
ing excellent missionary work.
Rev. DIR. j. w. Hanson is on the Atlantic
Ocean, homeward bound from England.
Rev. W. H. Dearborn, of Hartford,
Conn, summers in beautiful New Hamp-
shire.
Rev. W. S. Williams, during the month
of August, will be at Putney, Windham coun-
ty, vt.
Prof. Fl. p. Forbes, of Canton, N. Y, is
spending few weeks with relatives in
Maine.
Prof. j. c. Lee, of Lombard University,
is spending his vacation at his fathers, in
Canton, N. Y.
Rev. j. Coleman Adams at Narragansett
Pier, R. l., watching the bounding pillows of
the Atlantic.
Rev. DIR. J.. ii. Chaplin writes the Leader
that for him much drinking is helpful-at
Poland Springs, Vt.
Rev. Mrs. L. D. Crosley is still on the
way to Danbury, Conn, with her sons, by
private conveyance.
Rev. ]. O. F. Grumbine, of Syracuse,
N. Y, with his family, will rusticate along the
St. Lawrence River.
Charles Oaverly, General Agent, goes to
Weirs and Queen City Park, to keep the
brethren in good humor.
Rev. DIR. Fluhrer, of Grand Rapids, in
the woods of Northern Michigan, where he
finds rest and refreshment.
Rev. w. A. Pratt, of Cedar Rapids, in
Maine, recently preaching at the Norlands,
the old Washburn homestead.
Rev. DR.. Gunnison is at the Thousand
Islands. whence he will send bright and
breezy letters to the Leader.
Rev. o. f. Stafford, d. D., of Troy, N. Y,
is at Monson, Me-, where he vaoationized
last year to his own profit and that of the
people.
Rev. DIR. G. II. Emerson takes in the
Weirs and Queen City Park meetings, and will
" fool round" among the mountains for a
time.
Rev. A. G. Rogers, of Hudson, rests from
his labors in behalf of the new Albany par
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-08-13
REV. ST0PF0RD A. BROOKE ON
PROBATION.

The conception of God contains the
thought of his absolute being, and this
means that he is the source of all exis-
tence. All existenees, and more es-
pecially, las nearer to his central ma
ture), all intelligent and spiritual exis-
fences, must have flowed forth from
him, are necessarily kindred to him,
nay, belong to him. Detached from
him they could be nothing, would be an
initiated. Buff the hypothesis be true,
they cannot be detached from him. That
which has been in God can never be
separated from him. A spiritual being
which has come from him can never be
wholly outside of him, can never be de-
stroyed, unless we think that portion
of God himself can be destroyed. The
moment we face the thought of the an
Inhalation of spirit who has had its
source in God, (if we conceive of God
as absolute being the thought becomes
unthinkahle. 1t is an absurdity. We can
not perish, if God is. If he is not, and
we are mere concourses of atoms, why,
then, it is logical enough to say that
we are resolved into atoms again but
if we believe in the absolute being of
God, it is infinitely absurd to talk of
the destruction of any spiritual life
whatever. 1t is only the atheist who
can properly think humiliation. To
the theist of any kind, from the Ma
hametan and Persian to the Christian,
Immortality is now logical necessity
not only a matter of faith, but of in
tellect.
Yes, but of what kind ? Is it an i'm
mortality of evil, and the pain of evil
for all the unrepentant of earth Is
that the law? In answer, we fall back
upon the idea of God which Jesus Christ
has given us, which the spirit of God
has developed in the thought of men.
The absolute Being, if he is God, must
be absolutely good, loving, true, and
Just, and merciful, because mercy is
contained in the union of
love and justice.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-08-13
FEELING AFTER A TRUTH"

DIR. Sweetser, in his article Oh 1.-THE
Atonement," in the last Quarterly, is
clearly feeling after truth. We won
der if we can help him find it. The
truth that he seems to be feeling after
is that the atonement of Christ has
some effect upon God as well as upon
man, that it propitiates or in some sense
reconciles God to man, as well as man
to God.
Now, it is fundamental in theology,
that there can be no change in the in
most nature of Deity. The principle
of the Divine nature can never change.
That principle is active goodness, abso-
lutte love. Love is the principle that
always seeks the good of the being
loved. But what God is, always deter
mines what he does. Hence he must
always seek the good Of his children,
and the principle Of his activity must
always be the same. Whatever way he
may act he must always act for the
highest good of his children.
But while the principle of the Divine
activity is always the same, the mode
or method of that activity is not al
ways the same. That is conditioned
upon the needs Of the children. What
God does depends upon what man is.
God always treats man in accordance
with his needs in view of his final sal
walton or perfection. When he is sim
full and rebellious, he Furnishes him.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-08-13

No doubt the Texas election will be
followed, as in Michigan, by more strin-
gent legislation against the liquor traf-
fic. In this respect, the agitation in
the State, and the enthusiastic canvass
made by the friends of prohibition,
with the attendent circulation of temp
erance literature, and the cogent argu-
ments on the stump against the traffic,
will result in incalculable good. AL
though the amendment is so badly de-
feated it will be recognized that very
large vote was polled in favor of the
measure, and this, in itself, will prove
advantageous to the cause. When so
many thousands of the best people of
the State record their votes in favor of
State prohibition, it suggests the on
ward march of reform, and is a fact
which law makers and politicians of
both parties will take due notice and be
governed accordingly. We may look
for legislative action which will help
the temperance work in Texas. In the
meantime, throughout the South pro-
hibition is the law in many towns,
counties and cities, and the reform will
be surely judged by its fruits. The
Texas campaign, while resulting disas-
trously on the State issue, has been
waged with so much earnestness and
heroism, that the example cannot prove
otherwise than of profit to the entire
people Of the South.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-08-13

REV. GEO. I'll. VIBBERT has been deliv-
ering prohibition lectures in West Vir-
ginia to large audiences.
PROFESSOR ASA GRAY, of Harvard, who
is now travelling in Europe, has been re-
ceived with extraordinary enthusiasm by
the students in the ancient University of
Vienna.
PROF. DAVID SWING, at the Methodist
Social Union, recently said that years
ago as a Calvinist, he had forty things
against the Methodists; now he only had
one-that there were not more of them.
''Three arts for the minister to learn
expression, compression and impress
sion." So speaks the Christian Register.
We would add suppression. Happy the
minister who does not fear to prune his
sermons as wise gardeners do their vines.
-NelC York Observer.
SIT is time for Boston and Andover,"
remarks Church Work, "to make treR-
ty of peace. The leaders may enjoy the
fight and think that they are doing ser
vice of immense value to the cause OF
truth. A great theologisn said near the
end of his life after all the greatest her
esy is want of love- Let us not be guilty
OF this heresy even though we may seem
to be of lesser ones"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-08-13

WITHOUT any purpose of meddling
in matters which are suggested for an
others attention, we may be permitted
to observe of Rev. Scion Lauer's COM
munication printed this week, that in
one respect, at least, our New Theology
brother is away ahead of our expert
ence with free-thinkers. When Br.
Lauer speaks of these free-thinkers as
a class, holding to any form of ''belief
in God, in Incarnation, and even i'm
mortality he gives us genuine sur
prise. Br. Lauer's experience may be
richer and more fortunate than our
own, but we must confess that we have
never met with any of that kind. We
have found them among the most
rampant and aggressive unbelievers,
not only denying God, Incarnation and
Immortality, but making ridicule of
the most sacred beliefs, and impatient
of the beliefs of others in the Christian
verities. We would be glad to believe
that free-thinkers had any sympathy
with the enlightened beliefs of liberal
theologians, but until we learn more of
Br. Lauer's discoveries among them,
must doubt the propriety of the CLASH
fication suggested in his article.